2016: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Elle (dir: Paul Verhoeven)

2. The Witch (dir: Robert Eggers; US release date)

3. Sunset Song (dir: Terence Davies; US release date)

4. Silence (dir: Martin Scorsese)

5. Toni Erdmann (dir: Maren Ade)

6. The Handmaiden (dir: Park Chan-wook)

7. Embrace of the Serpent (dir: Ciro Guerra; US release date)

8. Moonlight (dir: Barry Jenkins)

9. 20th Century Women (dir: Mike Mills)

10. Certain Women (dir: Kelly Reichardt)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Arrival (dir: Denis Villeneuve), Everybody Wants Some!! (dir: Richard Linklater), Fire at Sea (dir: Gianfranco Rossi), Hacksaw Ridge (dir: Mel Gibson), Hail, Caesar! (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), Hell or High Water (dir: David Mackenzie), Jackie (dir: Pablo Larrain), La La Land (dir: Damien Chazelle), Little Sister (dir: Zach Clark), Love & Friendship (dir: Whit Stillman), The Love Witch (dir: Anna Biller), Neruda (dir: Pablo Larrain), Paterson (dir: Jim Jarmusch), Peter and the Farm (dir: Tony Stone), The Shallows (dir: Jaume Collett-Serra), Tale of Tales (dir: Matteo Garrone), Things to Come (dir: Mia Hansen-Love)

Best Film of the Year: Elle
Director: Paul Verhoeven Producers: Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Best Director:
Paul Verhoeven, Elle
2. Robert Eggers, The Witch
3. Terence Davies, Sunset Song
4. Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann
5. Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden

Best Actor:
Tom Hanks, Sully
2. Adam Driver, Paterson
3.Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
4. Colin Farrell, The Lobster
5. Jeong Jae-yeong, Right Now, Wrong Then

Best Actress:
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
2. Rebecca Hall, Christine
3. Sandra Hüller, Toni Erdmann
4. Emma Stone, La La Land
5. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart

Best Supporting Actor:
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
2. Issei Ogata, Silence
3. Tom Bennett, Love & Friendship
4. Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
5. Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar!

Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
2. Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
3.  Zoey Deutch, Everybody Wants Some!!
4. Kim Tae-ri, The Handmaiden
5. Lily Gladstone, Certain Women

Best Original Screenplay
Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
2. The Witch — Robert Eggers
3. Hell or High Water — Taylor Sheridan
4. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch and Ron Padgett
5. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-kyeong
2. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
3. Silence — Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese
4. Love and Friendship — Whit Stillman
5. Indignation — James Schamus

Best Cinematography
Moonlight — James Laxton
2. Arrival — Bradford Young
3. Silence — Rodrigo Prieto
4. La La Land — Linus Sandgren
5. Tale of Tales — Peter Suschitzky

Best Original Score
La La Land – Justin Hurwitz
2. The Neon Demon — Cliff Martinez
3. Jackie — Mica Levi
4. Moonlight — Nicholas Britell
5. The Light Between Oceans — Alexnadre Desplat

Best Film Editing
Arrival — Joe Walker
2. Hacksaw Ridge — John Gilbert
3. La La Land — Tom Cross
4. The Shallows — Joel Negron
5. Elle — Job ter Burg

Best Production Design
The Witch — Craig Lathrop and Mary Kirkland
2. The Handmaiden — Ryo Seong-hie
3. Tale of Tales — Dimitri Capuani and Alessia Anfuso
4. The Nice Guys — Richard Bridgland and Danielle Berman
5. Hail, Caesar! — Jess Gonchor, Nancy Hiagh and Nashon Petrushkin

Best Costume Design
The Love Witch — Anna Biller
2. The Witch — Linda Muir
3. Jackie – Madeline Fontaine
4. Sunset Song — Uli Simon
5. Everybody Wants Some!! — Karie Perkins

Best Visual Effects
Kubo and the Two Strings
2. Doctor Strange
3. Hardcore Henry

Best Sound
Green Room
2. La La Land
3. Sully

Best Makeup
Tale of Tales
2. Suicide Squad
3. The Neon Demon

Best Documentary Feature
13th — Ava DuVernay
2. Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rossi
3. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steiberg

Best Animated Feature:
Your Name — Makoto Shinkai
2. Sausage Party — Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan
3. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight

Best Limited Series:
The Night Of — Steven Zaillian, Richard Price, and Scott Ferguson
2. American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson — Anthony Hemingway, Ryan Murphy, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
3. Black Mirror — Charlie Booker

Best Documentary Series
O.J. Made in America — Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
2. The Cuba Libre Story — Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio
3. Six Wives with Lucy Worsley — Chloe Moss and Russell England

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Everybody Wants Some!!

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Robert Eggers, The Witch

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Richard Linklater; in alphabetical order): Temple Baker, Will Brittain, Zoey Deutch (pictured), Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Blake Jenner (pictured), J. Quinton Johnson, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, and Juston Street

Best First Feature: Anya Taylor-Joy (pictured) in Robert Eggers' The Witch

RECAP

W I N S :

Elle — 3,
Moonlight — 2, The Witch — 2, The 13th — 1, Arrival — 1, Everybody Wants Some!! — 1, Fences — 1, Green Room – 1, The Handmaiden — 1, Kubo & the Two Strings — 1, La La Land — 1, The Love Witch — 1, Night Of — 1, O.J. Made in America — 1, Sully — 1, Tale of Tales — 1, Toni Erdmann — 1, Your Name — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Witch — 6,
The Handmaiden — 5, La La Land — 5, Elle — 4, Moonlight — 4, Silence — 4, Toni Erdmann — 4, 20th Century Women — 3, Everybody Wants Some!! – 3, Sunset Song — 3, Tale of Tales — 3, Arrival – 2, Certain Women — 2, Hail, Caesar! — 2, Hell or High Water – 2, Jackie — 2, Kubo & the Two Strings — 2, Love & Friendship — 2, Paterson — 2, Sully — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s